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For NCRA Staff For the Executive Director Performance management and compensation of NCRA staff The NCRA Board of Directors establishes strategic direction to be undertaken by the Association for the benefit of its members. Pursuant to Article XIII of the NCRA Constitution and Bylaws, the Executive Director is responsible for hiring and managing staff sufficient to carry out this strategic…
Categories: Finance, About NCRA
Annual operational planning cycle July/August The annual budgeting process begins with a review of the prior year’s annual business plan. The review consists of progress made on the plan as well as on meeting Association goals as set forth in the Board-approved Strategic Plan. Additionally, staff identify new areas of focus and provide guidance on specific programmatic and operational issues to be…
Categories: Finance
NCRA Document Retention and Destruction Policy The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires all corporations (including not-for-profit corporations such as NCRA) to maintain a written, mandatory Document Retention and Periodic Destruction Policy. NCRA has such a policy in place. NCRA Document Retention and Destruction Policy
Categories: Policies and Procedures, Finance, Ethics and Business Practices
Any person who has attained high rank in the reporting profession as a practitioner of the art of verbatim stenographic reporting, as an author of verbatim stenographic reporting literature, or as a benefactor of the profession, but who is not in the active practice of verbatim stenographic reporting, upon recommendation of the Board of Directors, may be elected an Honorary Member by two-thirds (2…
Categories: Membership
Reporting a deposition where the witness is appearing by telephone (1999) Statement of Facts A Member has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding the following scenario: a reporter arrives to report a deposition where the witness is appearing by telephone. Although the reporter is not in the presence of the witness, there is a notary in the presence of the w…
Categories: Ethics and Business Practices, Advocacy
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Categories: About NCRA, Policies and Procedures
Statement of Facts A court reporter has requested the Committee on Professional Ethics (the “Committee”) develop an advisory opinion regarding the reporter’s duty under NCRA’s Code of Professional Ethics (the “Code”) in the following scenario: A reporter reports a deposition for Attorney A. At the close of the deposition, Attorney A orders the original and a copy. As required by …
Categories: Ethics and Business Practices
Further Guidance on Gift Giving (2011, Revised 2013, 2017) Statement of facts The NCRA Board of Directors has requested that the Committee on Professional Ethics address several fact scenarios involving gift-giving in order to provide guidance to NCRA Members on complying with the new rules. Scenario 1 A court reporter makes a presentation at a luncheon put on by the local paralegal associat…
Should a Court Reporter Act as Both the Verbatim Reporter and the Videographer for the Same Proceeding(Originally written, 2006) Statement of Facts A freelance court reporter has requested an opinion from the Committee on Professional Ethics regarding ethics issues involved when a court reporter acts as both the verbatim reporter and the videographer for the same proceeding. Discussion The Commit…